Extract from Viajes de un Colombiano en Europa/Travels of a Colombian in Europe José María Samper (1860) This piece, a description of London as experienced by a Columbian writer travelling through Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, is interesting for contemporary...

El Ejemplo de Mexico & Polémica con La Vanguardia/The Case of Mexico & Dispute with La Vanguardia Manuel Ugarte (1914, 1913) Ugarte was a very prominent Argentinian writer and socialist, a great advocate of Latin American unity, who produced a large body...

Un Hombre de Modo/A Fashionable Man Enrique Gomez Carrillo (1895) This 19th-century newspaper diary was a really fun exercise which, as well as providing an insight into a very specific point in European history, demonstrates the amount of research that is often...

El Almohadón de Pluma /The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga (1907) This short story is an allegorical tale about a young bride’s experience of marriage, told in the form of a horror story. The writing is notably laconic, with very simple sentence structure for a...

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